Objectives and Outcomes

Upon completing this course successfully, the Course Learning Outcomes state that you should be able to:

• Differentiate concepts such as oppression, stereotyping, discrimination, prejudice, racism, ethnocentrism, eurocentrism, equity, and antiracism

• Describe historical and contemporary cases of oppression within African-American, Asian-American, Latinx American, and Native American communities

• Evaluate and analyze current research and theories on antiracism issues

• Describe contributions of psychology to scientific racism

• Evaluate psychological theories on oppression and racism

• Discuss the intersection of race and ethnicity with other forms of difference affected by oppression, such as class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability and/or age.

• Analyze and articulate concepts such as race and racism, racialization, ethnicity, equity, ethno-centrism, eurocentrism, white supremacy, self- determination, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-racism as analyzed in any one or more of the following: Native American Studies, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latina and Latino American Studies.

• Apply theory and knowledge produced by Native American, African American, Asian American, and/or Latina and Latino American communities to describe the critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, contributions, lived-experiences and social struggles of those groups with a particular emphasis on agency and group-affirmation.

• Critically analyze the intersection of race and racism as they relate to class, gender, sexuality, religion, spirituality, national origin, immigration status, ability, tribal citizenship, sovereignty, language, and/or age in Native American, African American, Asian American, and/or Latina and Latino American communities.

• Explain and assess how struggle, resistance, racial and social justice, solidarity, and liberation, as experienced, enacted, and studied by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and/or Latina and Latino Americans are relevant to current and structural issues such as communal, national, international, and transnational politics as, for example, in immigration, reparations, settler-colonialism, multiculturalism, language policies.

• Describe and actively engage with anti-racist and anti-colonial issues and the practices and movements in Native American, African American, Asian American and/or Latina and Latino communities to build a just and equitable society.